Monday 25th January – MFL Flashmeeting #5

This evening I found myself sharing ideas and good practice with teachers from all over the UK, plus one or two from even further afield, such as New Zealand and America. The meeting’s agenda included discussions on new technology that Santa brought us for Christmas, discussing our New Year’s resolutions with regards to using ICT [...]

Half Term Top Five

This half term I have been able to get a lot done – not only have I been abroad (to Bilbao – a place very dear to me as I lived there for two years), but I have also had the chance to catch up on lots of paperwork and get to grips with a [...]

TeachMeet NorthWest

This Friday (2nd October)  dozens of us are going to meet at the BBC’s 21st Century Classroom in Salford for TeachMeet NW. I am looking forward to, not only meeting so many colleagues face to face for the first time, but also to doing my first ever presentation. TeachMeets only have 2 types of presentations: [...]

Twitter #MFL #2

 Having now firmly signed up to the tweeting life, I am slowly beginning to learn more and more about what Twitter can offer. I have realised that unless I go on it every few hours, or at least once a day, it becomes almost useless as I will have missed a lot of information. In one [...]

Twitter

I first joined Twitter back in February 2008, but for such a long time it seemed slightly pointless, and ever so slightly overwhelming. A few weeks ago I decided to take the plunge again after having seen a little bit more about it in the press and in the forums that I regularly read. I [...]